Source: NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" This resource was adapted from NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens." In 1610, when Galileo first pointed his newly built telescope toward the sky, ...

In January 1610, Galileo Galilei, using a newly improved telescope with 20x magnification, observed four celestial bodies orbiting Jupiter, initially appearing as stars. These bodies, later named Io, ...

Every wonder what the sky looked like hundreds of years ago? Where the planets were? We know that the constellations change so slowly that even if you time-traveled King Tut out of ancient Egypt into ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – NASA’s aging Galileo spacecraft plunged into Jupiter’s turbulent ...

NASA's Galileo orbiter will dart past Jupiter's moon Io on Thursday in the veteran spacecraft's last and closest flyby of any of the giant planet's four major moons. NASA's Galileo orbiter will dart ...

HAMBURG (dpa) – After the most successful interplanetary research mission in history, the German-American space craft Galileo has now been put on course for a crash landing with the planet it has been ...

The Galileo spacecraft's 14-year odyssey came to an end on Sunday, Sept. 21, when the spacecraft passed into Jupiter's shadow then disintegrated in the planet's dense atmosphere at 11:57 a.m. Pacific ...

A review of data captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft as it orbited Jupiter in the 1990s indicates it likely flew through a plume of water vapor spewing from cracks in the surface of the moon Europa, ...

The case for a giant plume of water vapor wafting from Jupiter's potentially life-supporting moon Europa just got a lot stronger. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted tantalizing signs of such a ...

In December 2000, when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will pass by Jupiter, scientists from the Max Planck Institut f¸r Kernphysik in Heidelberg, Germany, will analyse microscopic ash particles from ...